Rebecca Yarros's bestselling novel Fourth Wing, which took the literary world by storm in May 2023, has been officially greenlit for a television series. Amazon MGM Studios optioned the rights to the first book in The Empyrean series, with the project receiving a series order in May 2026. The adaptation is being produced by Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society, alongside Lisa Joy's Kilter Films and Premediated Productions.
Meredith Averill, an executive producer on Wednesday Season 2, has been confirmed as showrunner after entering final negotiations in September. She replaces Moira Walley-Beckett, who was originally tapped for the role. Jac Schaeffer, creator of Agatha All Along and WandaVision, had also been in discussions to helm the series but ultimately did not take the role. Lisa Joy will direct the pilot episode.
The story follows twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail, who is forced by her mother—a general in Navarre's military—to leave her life as a Scribe and train as a dragon rider at Basgiath War College. The college operates on a 'graduate or die' philosophy. Violet, who has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (a condition affecting connective tissue, also shared by the author), must navigate brutal training while caught between her old friend Dain Aetos and the mysterious Xaden Riorson.
The book series is planned as a five-book arc. The second installment, Iron Flame, was published in November 2023, and the third, Onyx Storm, arrived on January 21, 2025. A novella set between books has been teased by Yarros. Should the first season prove successful, each subsequent book in the series could be adapted into a separate season.
